Ministry of Health announced on No. 68 with the incidence of avian influenza in Egypt

25/04/2009 25/04/2009

أ The Ministry of Health No. 68 of human infection with bird flu of a woman, aged 34 years, meeting Sunday attended by the city of Tanta claims «Wafa Abdel-Jawad» to be infected during the seventh this month. And Dr «Sheriff Hammouda» Deputy Minister of Health meeting Sunday attended by the case of Ms. stable transfer was admitted to hospital in Cairo Abbasiyah to receive the necessary treatment as soon confirmed to be infected with the disease, He added that Ms. had gone Tanta admitted to hospital on 21 this month after feeling symptoms of the disease after being sick and dead birds infected with the virus have been taking the necessary action as soon as they enter the hospital, where she was detained and taken a blood sample for analysis. Confirmed by the analysis conducted in the laboratories of the Ministry of Health to give a positive sample was infected with a drug Ms. «Altamflo» resistant to the disease. It is the sixth province, the incidence of the West, where he had 5 people injured by the disease and died, including four people, including 3 from one family.